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Quite frankly, I don't trust this reporting, especially since it reports someone "flashing a white power finger gesture" which was clearly the "OK" gesture. The "noose" is also ambiguous - a loop of rope on scaffolding - but I can't tell if it tightens when pulled or not.
If you want to show that those attitudes are anomalous, you're going to have to bring something other than standard CYA disclaimer boilerplate. That NY Post link seems like a non sequitur.
I don't think it's a stretch to describe the "OK" sign as a "white power finger gesture" when the person making it is wearing a Trump visor and shouting "white lives matter". And I don't see how the noose is ambiguous, either — what do you think a noose is if not a loop of rope hung from somewhere?
No I don't, the burden of evidence is on you. The opinion of one guy in a group of 14k is only that one guys opinion by default. The link demonstrates the guy is outspoken. I can easily find racist comments on HN - it doesn't prove anything about other posters.
> what do you think a noose is if not a loop of rope hung from somewhere?
I think it's a rope knotted in a specific way to tighten when pulled. Being "the shape of a noose" is irrelevant unless it bears this quality. I have loops of string/rope all over the place, none of them are nooses.
Quite frankly, I don't trust this reporting, especially since it reports someone "flashing a white power finger gesture" which was clearly the "OK" gesture. The "noose" is also ambiguous - a loop of rope on scaffolding - but I can't tell if it tightens when pulled or not.